skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that explains it!

No need to be a conference organizer to test out the alpha, it would just be good to get independent feedback on the look and feel, functionality etc.

Have a great weekend!
Don't forget to allow scripts :D
This is perhaps the first slide I've seen by Holman, but despite having seen what feels like a million slide decks this year, this one resonated to me like no other has.

In an older job, I was constantly battling my program manager's desire to have everybody "come in on time". It was a great offense to her if somebody came in so much as five minutes late. Despite being the managing developer for the team, and hence, ultimately responsible for all the engineering work that happened, I refused to care, so long as the work was getting done. I had a great team of talented guys that were always down to knock out a problem, whatever the problem was.

My boss wouldn't see the hours they put in working from home ("How do I know they're working if I can't see them!?!?"), or the hours they stayed late when the work wasn't done.

I tried the age old arguments "So long as the work is getting done..." or "They can come and go whenever they want so long as I'm meeting deadlines..." etc., but none of it flew. I regret not trying harder to change the culture before ultimately giving up and going somewhere that 'got it'. As a result, I have less responsibility, work from home, work more than I used to, and am happier to do so. I also can't imagine giving up the team that I have now for any reason, and I honestly think they feel similarly.

I usually poo-poo all over 'company culture' lectures, but this one completely hits the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned.
Interview w/ Google dev who built Conway's Game of Life Easter egg
MakerBot's Bre Pettis 3D scanned face in WebGL
Apple Likely to Unveil “iPad Mini” at October 23 Event
Uggggh. No. No.

Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, whatever came before phpBB, Delphi Forums, ICQ, even Livejournal.

These things were pretty common, not just among geeks. I chatted with a 60+ year old grandma I worked with at a department store on ICQ in '98 & '99. All my buddies had AIM, yes, the non-geek buddies.

I know a carpenter active on a carpentry forum in the 1998-2002 era.

And we were in rural Idaho.
If you read his Tweets, when Laura tried to contact him on Twitter before. Anything she said was "wrong" because of evidence suggests otherwise. She literally couldn't give her personal views, because evidence denies it.

But let's be fair, you can make research say whatever you want. Especially social research. It's a very valid thing, but it should not be taken as gospel.
Not at the moment. I'm not really sure how to do that, but I'll look into it.
The reason why amphetamines are bad for your teeth is that they prevent your mouth from making saliva, which allows bacteria to multiply and causes other bad things to happen as well. Obviously it's probably not a good idea to be using meth in the first place, but if you're going to use any sort of drug that causes dry mouth then at the very least you should brush, floss, and use mouthwash and flouride rinse beforehand.
Did you even bother to read it?
Best Buy to match prices of online rivals - Market Day
The cynical part of me says that they would just exclude themselves.
Anyone know what the most exciting features are since the last major stable release?
Thanks. This is similar to http://evening-edition.com . A nice clean website written intelligently without a lot of fluff.
It's really more of sexism against women, in the sense that nursing (and teaching) is one of a small set of careers traditionally open to women, and so they clustered.

Like Jews and finance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_antisemitism#Restricti...
If you use chrome on windows, pretty much any web font is going to look like shit. I don't understand why google, one of the biggest pushers of web fonts, can't make a browser that renders them sanely.
+1 for tldr inserts on The Atlantic articles. Always have found their articles meaningful but verbose.
Django loves locals()
Tl; dr
bikeshedding and sentence manipulation in vim
- near real-time indexing with soft commits

- zookeeper integration
It reminds me of the whole Skepchick versus Dawkins & the "MRAs" drama that happened months back.
Android Play Market 3.9.16 with a Built-In Malware Scanner
I wish he would have provided more explanation behind the dentist's algorithm. Here's an actual study measuring enamel loss, which seems much more definitive:

http://faculty.philau.edu/ashleyj/General%20Dentistry%20Arti...

Perhaps the most important snippet:

Regression analysis indicated no correlation between enamel dissolution and beverage pH (r = 0.477, p > 0.05); in addition, the enamel dissolution showed no difference (p > 0.05) between the regular and diet versions of cola and non-cola beverages from the same manufacturer (Fig. 2 and 3). It was noted that the enamel dissolution was similar for all cola drinks over the 14-day test period (approximately 3.0 mg/cm2).

And again:

The data suggest that enamel aggressivity is determined by beverage composition rather than by beverage pH.
I 100% agree. Actually I have done almost exactly that, switched to tea, or ice tea. I'm not completely off the sugary drinks, but I'll drink things like Honest Tea with a lot less sugar than Coke, or just plain Tea.

The thing I'm actually most worried about is pancreatic cancer. I'm not even sure if there's a link between that and soft drinks, but I read one study where having 2-3 soft drinks a week doubled your risk of getting it. Well I was having 20 a week, which scared the crap out of me. And more and more people appear to be contracting and dying of it, so it's my secret fear.
It's relatively common usage to omit the full stop when it doesn't signal a sentence end - ie like this. :)
Of course. But is it any less valid that she says than Faruk, a guy. He's particularly talking about sexism for women - something by his own line he can never understand or experience.
Maybe you've already seen this, but I found it helpful for customizing cells:

https://github.com/vicpenap/PrettyKit
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video
I feel like someday I'll be saying this about my iPad.
I think I know what may look strange about the capitalization of this title. First, here is a good guide (there are many others if you search for "title case"):

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/capital_letters_title...

So, "a" and "the" are not capitalized because they are articles. But what about "on"? That's a preposition, isn't it? And according to this (and most) style guides you don't capitalize prepositions.

But in this title, "on" is not being used as a preposition. It's part of a compound verb, "catching on". Verbs are capitalized, so both those words are capitalized. Another good clue here is that "on" is the last word in the title, so it's not likely to be a preposition ("pre-position").

There is a subtlety here: "catch on" or "catching on" is often a compound verb meaning "becoming popular", but in a different context, it may be a simple verb and preposition. Consider these two headlines:

Sticky Notes are Catching On (becoming popular, "catching on" is a compound verb so both words capitalized)

Sticky Notes are Catching on Tables (getting stuck to tables, "catching" is a simple verb and "on" is a preposition, so "on" is not capitalized)
It gets even weirder when you look at it inside out.
Step 1: Link to a dynamically generated comment from my website

Step 2: Google, Bing, and others index my site

Step 3: Every bot that crawls my site is now a spambot
Ask HN: Working for Peanuts
Dear HN:

I've been pitched by some used car salesmen who want to start the umpteenth mobile location-based app business (but their idea is "new" and requires an NDA ::wink::).

I've already written something similar so much of the work has already been done. There would be little in terms of competition between the apps, though.

Full stack, Android + iOS apps, Web site. Credit card processing. In short, build the whole "car".

The pay they're offering is offensive, but I'm in a cash crunch, and rooted down in an area where my burn rate is high and opportunities are scarce. I hear the wolves at the door.

They showed me a competitor's bid for the project who is out of state and they offered me similarly offensive terms because I'm local. They're going at this like it's a one-shot deal and will just require some nominal maintenance, but I know better.

None of the other partners has any technical chops, and they're budgeting <$10K for the entire project (should give you an idea what they're offering me). By halving the already low rate they've offered a single-digit percentage of revenue sharing (a few hundred dollars to make the entire "car" that they sell for 10 grand).

I'm seriously tempted to take on the all-cash offer, keep the terms especially spartan, and then when they come back for more, drop the hammer in terms of pricing and ownership. I hate to conduct business in that manner.

Just wondering what everybody else would do in the same boat. Thanks in advance!
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Cloud Slice: Google Compute Engine
I agree, it's a valid problem to deal with, but the wrong time/place for it. Remember, at an interview, you are putting the impression in that young person's mind: "wait, people won't take me seriously as a female?" -- that's something they carry with them beyond the interview.
Good point.

This talk got restructured at least twice this week before I gave it, but I should have reworded those phrases, too.
Steve's point about vim is the first rational argument I've heard for using two spaces. Saying two spaces looks better with monospaced fonts is an opinion, one which I don't share. But I can buy into two spaces being semantic to your text editor.

I used to use two spaces before the web because that's how I learned it. Way back when I realized that browsers collapse consecutive spaces into one I stopped using them. This argument makes me rethink my position. It also reminds me that I really need to learn more of vim's shortcuts.
Unsweetened tea and coffee are definitely your best bets next to plain tap water for generally healthy drinks. Though I have found that drinking loads of black tea stains your teeth (it was cleanable), and switched to green tea.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/
Did you read the paragraph you quoted? It contradicts your claim.

> According to an analysis of Census Bureau data released by Reach Advisors in 2008, single childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most United States cities, with incomes that were 8% greater than males on average. This shift is driven by the growing ranks of women who attend colleges and move on to high-earning jobs.[7]

"[7]" is http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442110457546...

> While these particular women earn more than their male peers, women on the whole haven't reached equal status in any particular job or education level. For instance, women with a bachelor's degree had median earnings of $39,571 between 2006 and 2008, compared with $59,079 for men at the same education level, according to the Census.

> At every education level, from high-school dropouts to Ph.D.s, women continue to earn less than their male peers.

the "8% advantage", and all the differences quoted in this article, clearly do not control for the type of work performed.
There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it?

E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and I'm not up for searching minified sources to verify.
Wherein cheating is a fun word for optimizing.
Do Not Track: uncertain future for the web's most ambitious privacy initiative
'literally' means 'figuratively', figuratively.

'literally' means 'figuratively', literally, if you use 'literally' figuratively.
Let's "sell" Linux to them, shall we?

Ubuntu:
-) http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/8013-bigthumbnail....
-) http://dump4free.com/preview/1/ubuntuBabeAnime_wallpaper1280...

Archlinux:
-) http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/601041-bigthumbnai...
-) http://somoslinuxeros.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/archlin...
-) http://blog.desdelinux.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shizuk...

Linux in general:
-) http://animecrowd.ru/uploads/images/b/f/f/9/237/linux_anime....
-) http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/10944-bigthumbnail...
-) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BCi8KPUm4no/TOoY3mtqEMI/AAAAAAAAAG...

Fear not Linux-community, we are well prepared for fighting windows in Japan :D
Edit: Actually it looks pretty easy to add. I'll work on that tonight and update the @docverter twitter account when it's ready.
"Nothing great was ever not shipped"

That's gold.
Lucid Imagination has an annotated version of the “Release Highlights” for Lucene/Solr 4.0

http://searchhub.org/dev/2012/10/12/apache-solr-and-lucene-4...

Spellchecking built into the index instead of needing an ancillary one is a big feature, IMHO.

Andrzej Białecki, Robert Muir, and Grant Ingersoll will be presenting a paper on the Lucene 4 architecture: http://opensearchlab.otago.ac.nz/paper_10.pdf
This is what happens in Chrome on Windows 7. Its rendering of remote fonts is horrible, and the Chrome team should be ashamed of themselves. @font-face is incredibly common now and Chrome on Windows just ruins many very well-done designs.
Flippa and Apptopia are for completed and launched (or nearly launched) online services (be they websites or apps) that may (or may not) already be generating revenue stream, whereas Handoff.it is for earlier stage projects that are still at the MVP stage and whose founders have lost the drive - or lack the time or resources – to make their MVP progress further and take it to the next level. Handoff.it is geared more to the hacker community or to investors who would then hire programmers and designers to work with them to bring the MVP to a commercially-viable level. The idea is that they’ll be buying a new working site, with up to date coding standards, design and branding then take it from there …

Bottom line: Handoff.it is a complement to, rather than a competitor of, Flippa and Apptopia.
Could it be an easter egg?
And true to form, this entry appears to be sliding down the Hacker News front page (it's the last entry as I write) despite having a ton of upvotes.

The reason? Flagging. This has happened numerous times on HN when any discussion of sexism comes up- when I complained about it before I was told that the article were "not relevant" or "rehashes". It got to the point where a thread with 70+ comments was deleted because so many people flagged it.

Depressing- especially because it means that most people aren't even aware that it's going on.
CircleJerk: Conway's game of life via SEO rankings in Ruby
FAP FAP FAP
She can, you can't. Similar to the use of "nigga" or "[black] boy"

It's a (short-term) tactical subversion move to reduce the power imbalance in cases of extreme sexism, but as a long-term strategy it is incapable of reaching equality.
Here you go: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/fall-2012-hackny-stu...
It really just matters what you want to achieve, and if you are just rendering one button, all techniques perform fine.

What if you want buttons that can be any color? Then using resizable images doesn't work very well.

I use custom drawing code for one button in an app because I have a color wheel that let's you color all controls in the app to whatever theme you like. And for some other buttons, I use images to have more graphical control.
Blogspam.

Slashdot discussion already posted to HN, was on front page earlier. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641588
You can with simple JS posting a hidden iframe. This obviously won't work on 3rd party sites but works just fine from sites you control.
To couple pH with 'badness', you need to couple it with volume. It takes less effort to neutralize 1L of pH3 stuff than 10L of pH4 stuff.
The original interview (slashdot-link) was already on HN + such articles are the stupidest thing ever...
The original is on the web yet some people read an article that is 80% quotes filled up with fillers like "To the next question how he thought about xy, Torvalds said" "He then went on to describe" "As always he was very open about it and answered"... etc etc
They never submitted a demo link: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/fall-2012-hackny-stu...
"Neptune's Brood" comes out in July 2013. (It's a high-concept space opera and a meditation on the 2007-08 liquidity crisis. Also, nominally, a sequel to 2008's Hugo-nominated "Saturn's Children".) "The Rhesus Chart" is in the pipeline for July 2014. The other stuff is all, effectively, reprints.
Was under the impression the whole thing was - just didn't notice it at first and had a bit of a woah moment :)
Congress could use this.
While getting you great PR!
What is the estimated probability that we have good vs bad ideas? What is the probability that we think ideas are good vs think they are bad? How often do we misclassify a good idea as bad or a bad idea good? What is the benefit vs. cost of misclassifications(false positive, false negative) and the value of true positives/true negatives? How much does the chief dissent officer want to get paid? What would those probabilities look like with a CDO in place?

I'm glad FastCompany has done the calculations and knows definitely, that regardless of any of the answers to any of those questions, your industry, size, or strategic plans - your company needs a chief dissent officer.
redis_failover provides a full automatic master/slave failover solution for Ruby.

Changes in the 1.0 release:

redis_failover now supports distributed monitoring among the Node Managers! Previously, the Node Managers were only used as a means of redundancy in case a particular node manager crashed. Starting with version 1.0 of redis_failover, the Node Managers will all periodically report their health report/snapshots. The primary Node Manager will utilize a configurable "node strategy" to determine if a particular node is available or unavailable.

redis_failover now supports a configurable "failover strategy" that's consulted when performing a failover. Currently, a single strategy is provided that takes into account the average latency of the last health check to the redis server.

Improved handling of underlying ZK client connection in RedisFailover::NodeManager

Add support for passing in an existing ZK client instance to RedisFailover::Cient.new

Reduce unnecessary writes to ZK
It is completely unsurprising that this is possible - GoL is turing complete and obviously we can run GoL on turing equivalent systems.

It is really awesome that someone was able to do the attendant engineering work.
What exactly is the argument here? Were people (non-techies) using the web/internet before Facebook/MySpace? Of course. Are considerably more people (non-techies) using it now after Facebook/MySpace? Of course.
The "World Startup Report" Project
Could you be a little clearer on what you're hoping I'll take away from those comments? In case it wasn't clear, the gender of commenters isn't that important to me here.

There may be people on both sides of the fence, but there aren't two sets of facts. It's "great", if we can apply that word to what should be normal, that some women today haven't had personal experience with sexism, but that doesn't constitute a point of evidence against women who have.

Our culture as a whole has some very deep-seated not-so-subtle problems with gender politics. Our industry, with its absurd gender disparity, should be assumed ceteris paribus to be at least that bad, though I'd wager it's a little subtler and a little deeper-seated. We, all of us, are basically good people who really wish we didn't have an actual problem, that there's some benign explanation for the gap. We wish all the blog posts and articles about endemic sexism were overblown from a few freak occurrences, regrettable but not something we need to concern ourselves with discussing or fixing.

We should be deeply suspicious of anything which promises to fulfill that wish without evidence.
Facebook status updates not posting to Twitter
That seems clever but is actually a bad idea. I often browse the web with vimium and no mouse movement. I wouldn't be able to comment on your blog. There are better ways of using JS to prevent spam.
What a reminiscent moment :)
Years in the making, Lucene / Solr 4.0 is finally released
GP was bizarrely tone-deaf in his comment, but BA, QA, PM are a could vantage point form which to attack gender inequality.

They are jobs expect less technical prowess, and thus leave open an opportunity for a woman to show crossover talent (a BA knows how to write SQL? Wow!) and chisel away stereotypes.

Now, it's a ridiculous rigamarole to have to go through, but it may be strategically effective in wearing down barriers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6aP9S9rEQk — all the way down
> There is very little preventing young girls from getting involved with tech at a very young age except simple lack of interest

I disagree. Various gender roles are pushed onto girls at an incredibly young age. Look at the boys and girls aisles at your local toy shop. We teach our boys to be builders and makers. We teach our girls to be designers and caregivers (at least in US stores). Our society tells many young girls that building stuff on computers is not a womanly thing to do.

That is of course changing as efforts are made to foster a desire to build in younger girls, but at least anecdotally that attitude hasn't hit mainstream.
Also, for what it's worth the author was very open and explicit about the provenance. In the footer:

"This is a copy of the Pandoc README file, modified to suit Docverter's manifest format."

I'm confused though. In another comment [1] zrail says this (the HTML-to-PDF in particular) is built on a Java library. Is Flying Saucer based on Pandoc? Do you use one sometimes and the other other times?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4645497
Create cloud-based 3D-printable shapes with plain JavaScript
AndroidBootstrap already exists, then I chose "AndroidKickstartR" ;)
I wish people in my company prepared slide decks like this.
It always appears like that because he's written it so that when the "Google" cells are active, they appear darker than normal active cells. Whether these cells get activated or not follow the normal rules of Conway's game of live. So yeah, it's organic, but with a little trickery, the "Google" stands out as the pixels in the area blink on and off.

You can confirm this by pausing the simulation and clicking on all the cells in the region to switch them to the 'active' state: http://imageshack.us/a/img138/2751/71405409.png
You know, I don't think any new ground was broken here with regard to content and message, but aesthetically, Holman's slide decks are invariably great.
Okay, the iPad Mini seems real. What's it for? One word: education.
Juice is for most intents and purposes no healthier dan soda. It's mostly sugar and acid. The fact that said sugar and acid used to reside in a piece of fruit makes no difference at all.

If you want the health benefits of fruit, eat a piece of fruit.
Looking for Mentors for Academy for Software Engineering (NYC high school)
And I am really disappointed that you've comment-bombed all over this discussion for a good long while before disclosing that you are the author's roommate as well as the copy editor.
But still makes you feel dirty inside.
Since when did the 80's become 'a very long time' - I went to school in the eighties and it doesn't seem that long ago to me.
Added to my list, thanks.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_search_easter_eggs.html